HSE failed to act on declaration

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Court of Appeal case in which the Court heard that the HSE had failed to act on an earlier judicial declaration that the reassignment of a senior HSE manager to another post amounted to a breach of her contract of employment In May of this year, the Court of Appeal granted a declaration that the reassignment of a senior HSE manager from the operational and clinical nursing duties specified in her contract of employment to non-operational duties amounted to a breach of that contract. Helen Earley successfully appealed a decision of the High…